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Hello If CCTV is 1V p2p why does my genie handy set say IRE: 1100V (WHAT IS IRE?) and SYNC 200mv

Local guarding firm contacted me to do some installs for them for a pub, they emailed me saying the customer wants the whole system wireless and they need 8 cameras, red flags are coming up now but went along with it. Got the cctv recording requirements for licencing from the council and put togeather a price. Was gonna use all hik DS—7608NI-E2—8P—A. 8CH NVR DS—2CD2432F-IW 3MP. wifi IPC Purple 4TB HDD POE injectors I sent them.a price for gear plus my labour, then they email me back saying can you do a price for wired. They looked on eBay and they seen some kits that look good You either want wired or wireless. Im not even entertaining them tbh. Told them i have…

anybody got any thoughts on wireless cctv cameras such as Arlo stuff ? or any recommendations for cameras to buy. I have only installed or worked on wired stuff as I would think this is more stable, not sure about battery operated cameras.

Do the cables need to be protected? (ie: inside a office cabling running down wall to kp)

Hi I was just wondering what bugs did the 9100,9200,9600 and 9800 have in them Thanks in advance

Hello I'm a 16 year old alarm collector and I was wondering if you had any old equipment that you don't want that you could possibly send me, I'm looking for a scantronic 9500 to complete my perfect alarm system so if you have a 9500 panel or just some old unwanted equipment please let me know

Can anyone help...I have rumble pads in my windows and the other night the front window alarm set the house alarm off. It shows up in my keypad as tamper from window ...this has happened a few times now but I can not resolve the problem or remove the tamper from the box...please help

Have fitted around 20 visonic express and completes now found them ok but have had many issues with the wireless contact and now if i can always hardwire the door contact to zone 29. Anyway I'm sure its been covered before but wondered what peoples thoughts were on the best value for money wireless/hybrid systems.

Hi all, been for a interview this week for a recently established co, previous firm was liquidated, Just they want me too use my own car for a trial period before getting a van on a 3yr lease just incase it doest work out i got to be right for them and they got to be right for me then there stuck with a van, but woudnt the next engineer comes along use it, its just got me thinking allsorts, Ive known apprentices that get given a van no problem.

Me being new here just wondered if you ever meet up with other members of the forum or arrange a gathering of sorts for a few scoops

I'm a C&G qualified electrician but i've been doing almost exclusively alarms work for the last 5 years but with no formal training in the field. I've installed and maintained fire panels from various manufacturers, my intruder experience is mostly with Menvier, Galaxy and more recently Texecom. A 'senior' position has become available at a rival firm, i don't think i'll be applying, however the thought of doing so has made me realise something - i feel like i know nothing! I think maybe what i am looking for is some way of convincing myself and potential future employers that i do indeed know what i'm doing. What's the most widely recognised qualificati…

how do I wire from a conventional fire alarm panel to intruder panel so if fire alarm goes off it sets bells off on intruder and activates speech dialler? thanks

Is it all down the lens? A standard IR camera would blur the plate back so how does a ANPR do this? Obs the software reads the plate but the camera i'm interested in.

The customer doesn't like the look of the wireless contact and I have been asked to fit a flush contact and wire it into the terminals on the ricochet wireless contact that's mounted somewhere out of sight. I've checked the installation instructions and it doesn't mention anything about how to do this, whether it requires resistors etc. from memory I think the terminals are marked M1, C and M2. Is M1+C zone then C+M2 tamper? Whilst playing around with this I also noticed something, when viewing zone status I noticed if the zone status is active or tamper I can press reset and the status changes to secure, what's actually happening there?

On a day rate do you provide screws, reds etc??